Why Shoes

posted on April 3, 2018

Do you want to know why shoes could be a fundraising currency for you? Well, we have answers for you. First and foremost, they could help you raise funds. How? It’s simple. You collect shoes in your community. And then we issue you a check for them. What’s more, no one who gives to your fundraiser has to give you money—or buy merchandise. In a shoe drive fundraiser, we issue you the check at the end of your fundraiser.

But more reasons exist to do a shoe drive fundraiser other than raising funds for your cause. Through the years, we have helped many types of organizations and families. For instance, we help families raise funds through an adoption fundraiser. We partner with small grassroots community organizations like soup kitchens and shelters. And we partner with families looking for medical fundraisers or to raise funds for service animals.

In short, many reasons exist to partner with us! So you could raise awareness for your cause and also funds. And all you have to do is collect gently worn, used and new shoes.

Why Shoes? Raise Funds

You raise funds you need without asking anyone for money. Instead, you ask your supporters and community for shoes and we issue you a check. The more shoes you collect, the higher the amount of the check.

Social Responsibility

More than 600 million pieces of footwear get tossed in the trash each year. And we know it’s not good for the planet. So, this fundraiser helps your community to repurpose shoes. That is, give them a new life in developing nations.

Social Change

Wondering what happens to the shoes you collect? Here’s the answer. The footwear gets consolidated with thousands of others and shipped to developing nations. In turn, micro-entrepreneurs sell the footwear in their local communities for a profit. Remember, in many developing countries, because of systemic poverty, millions of families have limited work opportunities.

To read more, click here to download our white paper titled, “Why Shoes? The Story of Mico-Enterprise”.